What Are You Hungry For?
Women, Food, and Spirituality
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Publisher Description
Women have many secrets. But a woman's secret relationship with food and her body can overshadow other aspects of her life, filling her with obsession, shame and fear. Many women waste countless years focusing on food and appearance, rather than spending energy on what holds deepest meaning for them in life.
In What Are You Hungry For? authors Taylor and Ginsburg show how obsessive dieting, a distorted body image and eating disorders are often symptoms of a deep spiritual void. They offer a revolutionary--and easy to follow--approach to resolving deep-seated food and body issues using methods adapted from Eastern mind/body practices such as yoga.
What Are You Hungry For? is a discovery book in the tradition of Susie Orbach's Fat is a Feminist Issue and Geneen Roth's When Food is Love. It will change the way you think about your body and the way you approach preparing and eating every single meal.
"Finally, an insightful book that ties together food and our spiritual practice What Are You Hungry For? provides both philosophical and practical ways to understand our relationship with what we take into our bodies and to how we are following our internal voices." --Rodney Yee, yoga teacher and star of the bestselling video series "Yoga Journal's Yoga with Rodney Yee"
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The food and body conflict is a problem. Spirituality, self-awareness and a healthy dose of yoga are the answer, according to Ginsburg and Taylor, the "Eating Wisely" columnists for Yoga Journal. Part self-help book, part manifesto, this volume reveals the absurdity of "the Covenant" (women's confidential, unspoken belief that "thinness equals happiness"), stating, "if that's true, then impoverished women who don't have enough to eat must be very happy, because they're very thin." The authors offer a series of Eastern mind/body practices to help women find their dharma "one's inner nature and spiritual core" and to stay true to that personal purpose. Only then can women begin to address the "longing for spiritual fulfillment that leaves us always hungry and dissatisfied." Other tools teach how to listen to gut feelings and recognize signals from the body about what and when to eat, so eating behavior is not dictated by habit, theories or diets. Readers will find little in the way of nutritional guidelines or food plans other than passing reference to the importance of a balanced diet based on whole, organic foods. Instead, they will learn to savor the "rasa" (essence) of food and to eat what feels right for them. For those women willing to undertake the often unpleasant journey to self-awareness and to commit to living a conscious and self-examined life, this is a helpful manual.